BIOS Updates forum

Hi to anyone who contributed, I guess the topic was boring. Got the answer to my problem from ASUS direct and it was as I suspected, I needed an update to the BIOS. ASUS sent me one with a different file name to the one on their site. But the new one worked and now both drives are working exactly as...

KachiWachi

The primary has Xp Pro loaded and as you surmised only data on the other.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Tks Edwin

Don't know the difference between the 99 and 99B but I guess I am not recommended to use it with my machine.

Also not sure what is involved in Hot Flashing?

Crispynet

Answers to KachiWachi - The disks are not blank they are exactly as they were working in my other machine. - I don't have a manufacturers floppy but I do have a Seagate cd which is bootable. However I am unable to boot from anything until I get past the Post stage unless I disconnect the new drives....

My machine has a ASUS mobo and the BIOS info is as follows - Award Modular Bios v4.51PG on enegy star ally(c) 1984-98 ASUS P2-99 ACPI Bios Revision 1012 03/03/00 - i440zx - P2-99 I have transfered two working wd800JB drives from another machine to this machine. They are set as master and slave from ...